My friend and I are off to Banff National Park in the morning. Maybe I'll pop the question once we're north of the border. :-)

Go to an east or west border as well -- Alberta (Dallas North) is still dragging its heels and won't issue a license for same-sex marriage yet.

As far as Canada being a country of bigots, with shallow tolerance -- shallow tolerance is better than none!

And yes, the rights of the individual here are not quite (but close) as sacred as they are in the US. American society is based on the social contract theories of John Locke, who held the individual as the highest value. Canadian society is based on the social contract theories of Edmund Burke, who held the individual as valuable, but recognized that the value of the individual cannot be more important than that of the society to which the individual belongs. There are pluses and minuses in both perspectives, but the Canadian one does make for a more peaceful society, IMO.